Henning Meier-Geinitz, Freitag, 12. April 2002 18:28: > Hi, > > On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 07:31:29AM -0700, Matts wrote: > > So my suggestion is that this is added to the planned fuatures list, > > the possibility to select a number of areas and then scan them all at > > once. It should also be possible to save the areas configuration, > > since In many cased the areas are always the same, since the use the > > use of a frameholder. > > Probably there are tow ways to do this: > > 1) Add this to SANE2, that means, change the SANE standard. Do all the > work in the backend. The fronetnd "only" selects and transmitts the > regions of the single images. The backend calculates the real scan > parameters and divides the scan data into single images. > > 2) All the work is done in the frontend. Should be possible, too. So > the frontend scans only a big chunk of the image and divides it > into smaller pieces. <spam> Isn't 2) exactly what QuiteInsane does (or should do, if it would work :-) ? </spam>
1) would be better, of course, since you don't have to scan redundant parts of the image. Michael
